What Is an AGP Video Card?
Accelerated graphics port, or AGP, video cards use a hardware specification created by Intel in the mid-1990s that offered superior graphics speed and performance. This technology has since been supplanted by PCI-Express based video cards.What is AGP?Developed by Intel and first released in 1997, an AGP is a connector between a computer’s graphics card and motherboard.Before AGPStandard PCs have slots on the motherboard for network, sound and other cards. In most cases, one slot houses the graphics card, which allows the PC to drive an external monitor. Before the development of AGPs, all slots generally used the same connection type–peripheral component interconnect, or PCI.Heyday of AGPAGP graphics cards were born of the need for faster and better video performance. They allow the load from delivering the video display to a monitor to be removed from the PCI slots, letting graphics and PCI cards function better, each having a dedicated connection to the motherboard.Supplanted by PCI
